Product Description

In this six-session, video-based Bible Study, bestselling author and pastor John Ortberg helps us discover what the soul is, why it is important, how to assess the soul's health, and how to care for it so that it contributes to the depth and beauty of our relationship with God and others. The kit includes:

Publisher's Description

In Soul Keeping, John Ortberg helps Christians rediscover their soulthe best connection to God there isand find out why its hurting and why neglecting it has set so many believers so far back spiritually.

In this six-session, video-based small group Bible study, Ortberg shows that caring for your soul is necessary for your Christian life. John shows participants what your soul is, why it is important, how to assess your souls health, and how to care for it so that we can have a meaningful and beautiful life with God and others.

When you nurture your soul your life in this world will come to make sense again; you can find your way back to God from hopelessness, depression, relationship struggles, and a lack of fulfillment. Your souls resting place is in God, and John Ortberg wants to take participants to that home.

Author Bio

John Ortberg is the senior pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church (MPPC) in the San Francisco Bay Area. His bestselling books include Soul Keeping,Who Is This Man?, and If You Want to Walk on Water, Youve Got to Get out of the Boat. John teaches around the world at conferences and churches, writes articles for Christianity Today and Leadership Journal, and is on the board of the Dallas Willard Center and Fuller Seminary. He has preached sermons on Abraham Lincoln, The LEGO Movie, and The Gospel According to Les Miserables. John and his wife Nancy enjoy spending time with their three adult children, dog Baxter, and surfing the Pacific. You can follow John on twitter @johnortberg or check out the latest news/blogs on his website at www.johnortberg.com.

I have been leading a Sunday school class for singles and couples whose ages range from 20-something to early 50s for about 4 years. During that time, I have used a couple of dozen video series as curriculum, including others by Ortberg. Soul Keeping is the best of them all. It is thought provoking, challenging, and emotional while leading one to look beneath the surface of their own "outward life" at the soul that ties it all together. Another reviewer mentioned that this series is aimed at the newer Christian. I disagree. I believe the mature Christian will benefit the most from it, though all will find it beneficial to their faith.

I used this series for a seeker-type group in my neighborhood. In the group were some unchurched, and some with a eastern leaning in their understanding of spiritual truth. This series worked wonderfully well for this, even though it really is a series for the growing Christian. My purpose was to generate spiritual discussion with my neighbors, and all of us were in our 50s and up (or close to 50s). One reason it lent itself for the purposes of my group is because its not overtly evangelistic, yet Ortberg makes himself very vulnerable in talking about the effects of sin in his life, as well as other biblical truth, like grace, gratitude (session 5 is really practical on blessings vs cursing), and suffering. On the other hand, the significance of the cross of Christ is not touched on, and I did some filling in of the gaps on my own as group facilitator. This series was enthusiastically received and kept their interest. As someone who has lead a lot of small groups of different kinds, this is a very well-done series. I also have never encountered an approach quite like this in its focus on our souls. It will give you much to ponder, and apply.

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Six Sessions and their lengths are:1. What is the Soul (25 minutes)2. The Struggle of the Soul (24 minutes)3. What the Soul Needs (24 minutes)4. The Practice of Grace (22 minutes)5. The Practice of Gratitude (22 minutes)6. The Practice of Growth (22 minutes)

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